Queer and Pakistani. Not a contradiction
Aleenah Ansari, Seattle, WA I didn’t choose to be queer, but I can choose to live authentically, to stoke conversations about queerness in communities of...
Best Audio Book Selection The Seattle Times
The intimacy and authenticity of these responses, anonymous and otherwise, translate well to audio through the aid of a seemingly countless array of narrators. The...
Asian: Discounted everywhere but HR reports
My experience Seattle, WA People say “reassuring” discounting things like “I never think of Asians as people of color, you’re like white people with funny...
Authentically me, a clash of cultures.
Isabella Le, Seattle, WA Born in the United States, the body of three different cultures that continue to clash with each. Feeling more Vietnamese one...
Rich white guys run the world
Tracy Staggers, Seattle, WA Obama is what America would like to be, Trump is what America is.
Once uneducated/naive. I’m changing that.
Jordyn Ducotey, Seattle, WA. Recent events have really made me challenge my own thoughts and the perceptions that I have been taught. I consciously make...
Deliberately deviant to preserve white privilege
Marcos Cu, Seattle, WA. I would prefer to write about diversity instead of someone else’s prejudices. For example the Mayan’s mathematical wonders architectures. The Kwakwa...
“But you’re not like other Mexicans.”
Tom Vásquez, Seattle, WA. I was in high school when this happened. I’m a son of a Mexican-American, so I’m 50% Mexican blood. 50% French-Canadian...
How can I help us heal?
Shanna Zak, Seattle, WA I know people are suffering and I just want to help without making the problem worse.
Always, what are you? Long story.
Mariko Lockhart, Seattle, WA. Collected from The Race Card Project, On Location: Seattle Community Colleges My dad was black, born in Panama, as my grandfather...
No one else chooses my identity.
Natalie, Seattle, WA. My grandmother never got to pass for white. She was sent to indian boarding school. 50 years later, I grew up in...
Do you make your own tortillas?
Norma Torres Addis, Seattle, WA. The first time I heard this question, I thought it was funny. After hearing it a few times, it made...
I will never really ‘get it’.
Celia Beasley, Seattle, WA. Being an upper-middle class white woman, I know I will never truly understand what it feels like to be a person...
Norwegian with nappy hair doesn’t fit.
WilmaS, Seattle, WA. If I had a dollar for every time I was asked if my sons were adopted…It’s happened a lot. A complete stranger...
Once had dreadlocks. Now know better.
Susan Tsoglin Seattle, WA At the time, I was a white female college student in a mainly white university. Following the disaster that was the...
